Conserved intron positions in FGFR genes reflect the modular structure of FGFR and reveal stepwise addition of domains to an already complex ancestral FGFR

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 219, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 455-468

  Rebscher, Nicole ^a   Deichmann, Christina ^a   Sudhop, Stefanie ^a,b   Fritzenwanker, Jens Holger ^b   Green, Stephen ^b   Hassel, Monika ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Deuterostomia; FGFR; Intron; Placozoa; Protostomia

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COELENTERATE; DEUTEROSTOMIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC GAIN; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTOSTOMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDRA; PLACOZOA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECDYSOZOA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA; PROTOSTOMIA; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

EID: 76449089337     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-009-0309-5     Document Type: Article

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